GA Wins Big at PA 10 Day Film Challenge

GA upper school students  had a great day at the PA 10 Day Film Fest which was held at the United Artists Riverview Plaza 17 & RPX in Philly yesterday where our student film makers won a number of awards and were nominated in the following categories:

Everything We Dreamed Of - written and produced by Gabe Alter & Niki Roman

Awards

Audience Choice Award

Best Sound

Best Overall Film 7th Place

Nominated for

Artistic Merit Award

Best Editing

Killing Time - written and produced by Sam Korman, Dylan Bass, and Bailey Whitman

Nominated for Best Opening Titles

 

"I couldn't be more  proud of our young filmmakers." Reports Dainis Roman, Media Teacher.  GA will be able to see this work on April 29th at the Best of GA video assembly next week.

GA Students Win The 10 Day Film Challenge

GA Students win the 10 Day Film Challenge

"Everything We Dreamed Of" is a depiction of a high school valedictorian's last minute struggles to complete his speech for graduation day. While he is drained from his intense writers block, he falls into a dream state that takes him back in time to a physical walk through of his entire childhood schooling experience from elementary days to his senior year. In remembering the impactful experiences of his days in grade school, he achieves an epiphany which ultimately allows him to complete his speech in time for graduation. Student Film Makers
Niki Roman and Gabe Alter.

"Killing Time" is a supernatural themed short film that follows Rick Wilson (Matt Gorman) after he finds a haunted egg timer that he found after the death of his grandfather. Despite many efforts to ditch the evil timer Rick continues to rediscover it, which in turn causes unnatural events to occur in his life. student Film Makers Matt Gorman and seniors Dylan Bass & Sam Korman.

Best of GA Media and Songwriting

Songwriters Perform at the Best of GA Media

Media Students Begin Documentary on Isaiah Zagar

Media Students Working on Short Films

Songwriting Students in Rough Demo Sessions

 Stills from top to bottom:  J Taylor and E Edwards; Jim Wade and B Buchholz; B Buchholz at the controls; and A Leone

Media Students Video Conference with Award-Winning Film Producer

The Media Students were fortunate to have the opportunity to conference with Susannah Ludwig, award-winning film producer, to discuss trailers that they have edited for the book Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig, GA Alum, hitting bookstores on March 13, 2012. These students produced the original footage directed by another GA Alum, Tim Macaler, who is currently finishing his film training at NYU and are hoping to have their work chosen for national distribution for the release of the novel.

Media Students Edit Book Trailer

In early September, Advanced media students had the rare opportunity to work with a renown documentary producer on a book trailer for Pretty Crooked, a soon to be released young adult novel by GA alum Elisa Ludwig.  After crewing the shoot, the students returned to the Media Lab at GA to edit their own version of the trailer that will be used to distribute and market the Harper Collins imprint.

Digital Songwriting Students Meet With Author Steve Almond

Advanced Media Students Make Book Trailer